# Is Facebook now listing people who visitied your profile as "People you may know"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 28, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325 "2013-12-28T00:48:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rochelle78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rochelle78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rochelle78)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325/1 "2013-12-28T00:48:38Z")

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Hello,  
I’ve heard that if you look at someone’s Facebook profile a  
lot you will show up in there “People you may know” even  
if you don’t share any friends. I was wondering if anyone knew if this was true?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325/2 "2013-12-28T04:36:09Z")

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Aw man! We cyber-stalkers should have a reasonable expectation of privacy when we’re violating yours, y’know?

Actually, I think that’s not the case for my page.

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**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325/3 "2013-12-28T21:13:49Z")

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Probably not. That happens with Linkedin though.

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**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325/4 "2013-12-28T22:41:51Z")

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I think it is true, and has been true for several years. I had an old friend who one day showed up as a person I may know. We had no friends in common. That had happened about two or three times. That is just my experience.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-now-listing-people-who-visitied-your-profile-as-people-you-may-know/677325/5 "2013-12-29T13:00:51Z")

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I also think that is true, I have a acquaintance that we don’t care to friend each other, but once in a while she will show up in the friends you may know, so sometimes I click on it, then she I assume clicks on it on her end as I would show up on her’s, this process goes back and forth a few then we stop - perhaps a year later this repeats. I don’t have verification on her end, but assume that is what is happening.